ownCloud 7 Released With more Sharing And Control

July 23, 2014

Dear contributors, friends and fans! The ownCloud community is proud to announce the release of ownCloud 7. Eight months of planning, coding, discussing and testing have brought massive improvements in sharing and collaboration while putting you even more firmly in control of your data. Watch this great video to get an overview of the new and improved features in ownCloud 7!

See what files are shared by whom

Share More Than Ever

First off – ownCloud 7 is about sharing: Server-to-server sharing makes collaboration between you and somebody on a different ownCloud installation as easy as on a public cloud, while still giving you the privacy and control of a private, hosted cloud.

Sharing is more flexible and transparent – files shared with you are no longer confined to a single “shared” folder and the Files app shows what files are shared by who. As administrator you have more control with options like disabling sharing for some user groups and ensuring shared links expire in a timely manner and are protected by passwords for others.

Faster, Easier and With More Control

ownCloud 7 also delivers an improved user interface and faster responses, while introducing mobile web browser support. The new, powerful File Activity Notifications can be finely controlled and updates can be sent to you by mail, configured easily with the new Email Configuration.

Configure emails send to users

If you manage an ownCloud, you will see improved User Management with easier group handling, search, filtering by group and a single, scrolling list putting all users at your finger tips. You can control access to External Storage by groups and decide how it counts towards the users’ storage limits and you can modify the Email Templates to control the communication of ownCloud to your users.

ownCloud 7 is translated at least 80% in over 30 languages. If you want to help translate ownCloud to your own language, help out here.

There are many other ways to join the ownCloud community and contribute to making ownCloud successful. See our contribution page to get started.

We look forward to your feedback. Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments section below, follow and share this release via #owncloud7 on twitter, Google+ and Facebook and don’t forget to tell others about this ownCloud release!

chris

Nigel

I have got the same problem as several others running owncloud 6.04 and when I click upgrade in the upgrade center nothing happens. Previous upgrades have worked fine. Anyone from owncloud care to comment? Has anyone else been able to fix it?

Yes, it would indeed be best if the hoseelms had homes to live in and jobs. And many of them want these things. However, a good percentage of Berkeley’s hoseelms want to live on the streets because Berkeley’s plentiful hoseelms shelters will not let these people carrying liquor bottles, drugs or their pets. Moreover, when it comes to some of the young sitters in particular, they have come to Berkeley because of its ultra tolerance and numerous services. For them, the culture of life on the street is what they have come here for.And some are so tragically out of it that psychologically that they actually prefer to live on the streets or in People’s Park. These people should be hospitalized, with or w/o their consent as they are a danger to themselves and a nuisance and potential danger to others.As for jobs, if some were available to these people of low skill, many would not take them. Don’t believe me? Ask em.Finally, since the sit proposition (barely) failed, it is incumbent upon you if you are aggressively panhandled to go out of ear-shot and call the police.

Sakkie

I experienced the same, also when migrating from version 5 to version 6 (upgrade major version).

The trick that solved it for me:
Delete the contents of the owncloud directory; (!)except for the config and data directories(!). (This differs from the updates procedure that take place within the same minor version.)
Make shure your config and data are back in place and unpack the (major) upgrade archive.

Open the URL to your owncloud and initiate the actual upgrade. Takes a while…

Jos

If you use linux, simply updating will take care of everything. I suggest to shut off apache and mysql before running the distribution update and consider making a backup of your settings and the database.